Misgav Am hostage crisis - Five Palestinian Arab from the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front penetrate kibbutz Misgav Am in the night and enter the kibbutz…

When

7 Apr 1980

Kind

Terrorist attack

Coordinates

33.25° N, 35.55° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Misgav Am hostage crisis.

Misgav Am hostage crisis - Five Palestinian Arab from the Iraqi-backed Arab Liberation Front penetrate kibbutz Misgav Am in the night and enter the kibbutz nursery. They kill the kibbutz secretary and an infant boy. They then hold the rest of the children as hostages, demanding the release of about 50 person held in Israeli prisons. The first raid of an IDF infantry unit is unsuccessful, but a second attempt, a few hours later, succeeds, and all the people are killed. Two kibbutz members and one soldier are killed, four children and 11 soldiers are wounded.

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